Fourth Reich (7.10.07)

The IV Reich's global robbery
Bewildered by what's been happening, both nationally and globally, in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall?
I.e. where the unwittingly weakened nation-state - formerly a bulwark against plain-levelling & globalization -
no longer tempers the social, economic & other pitfalls foreseen by Marx, Gramsci, Minsky, McCulley,etc.
Where - as the Laffer & Rider Curves illustrate in the tax & the social fields - excessive poor/rich gradients
are upsetting the delicate social fabric, thus washing away fertility factors with uncontrolled erosive powers.
Where indeed, as Patrick Martin pointed out, monopolistic capitalism and the associated reckless greed
are no longer kept in check by Adam Smith' invisible hand, i.e. by the balance of contradictory interests.
And where the capacity for self-correction is increasingly inhibited by loss of freedom, mooring & orientation
which led to market frenzies & false alpha birds feeding on hype & bubbles, reminiscent of the Roaring 20s.
IMF & FATF estimate black funds (drugs, tax evasion etc) to be 2-5% of world's GDP (2006: $960-2400bn).
An IMF Report indicates these funds to be increasingly chased under anti-terrorism & ever flimsier pretexts.
Courtesy by the IV Reich's Secret Service, the world has indeed been made hostage of ill-considered rules
which impede more legitimate business than crime. For big time money laundering, the US Treasury set the
standard in 2001 with its 31% confiscatory backup withholding tax on unidentified investors in US securities,
turning foreign bankers from trustees of clients into IRS agents (qualified intermediaries) subject to US laws.
Private equity & hedge funds thus found a government-sponsored access to black funds, while the latters'
entry into subprime markets was also eased by the Internet. Results: predatory lending & systemic risks.
Society's organization needs re-thinking with Plato, Gottlieb Duttweiler, José María Arizmendiarrieta etc.
For man's evolution may only be stressed by technological leaps but not accelerated beyond natural limits.
Also: return on investment rates above productivity gains & organic growth are predatory & not sustainable.
If driven by managers, lawyers & funds on the back of other stakeholders, M&As are thus Ponzi schemes
where shareholder value adepts can maraud with stacked Monopoly cards, helped by micro-economic laws.
Like compulsory social insurance systems whose doom is delayed or obscured only by inflation, war, etc.
And where the cunniest operators are state-supported by myopic magistrates hood-winked into fiscal deals.
Gary J. Aguirre's US Senate testimony details fraud & market mechanics which were at work before 1929,
e.g. Ponzi structures, unregulated pools of money, siphoning from unsuspecting mutual fund investors, and
abuse-prone market dominance: hedge funds' $1.5 trillion drive half of the $28 trillion NYSE's daily trading.
Tongue-in-cheek, Warren Buffet famously opined: "derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction";
yet, under increasing performance & compliance pressures, some bankers still see a future in fee hunting.
Society wised up against churning of accounts by undelicate trustees, but not yet against macro-parasitism
which feasts on ignorance, sucks & devours a firm's life-preserving substance, & weakens society's pillars.
Which turns economic rat races into societal tailspins with early burn-outs & senior citizens being wasted,
& instills values causing youth to be educated out of sync, resulting in drug, violence & €1000 generations.
With profit-driven quarterly thinking & cost-cuttings also eroding due infrastructure maintenance & renewal,
& democracy's promises ridiculed by Fatf, EU & UN bureaucratic lawmaking as if Berlin Wall fell eastwards.
So why not thinking things over & “Revisiting Das Kapital while some dance on the Titanic”? Iconoclast

9/23/07 6:59AM PST ZaRdOz420
"The monetary system of the U.S. and the major nations of the free world was established in 1694 by the Bank of England. This system subverts the legal and constitutional government and leads to Socialism or Fascism through favored corporate creation and control of the government's money and credit; directs the policies of government and holds in their hands the destiny of the people." Reginald McKenna, Chairman of the Board and President, Midlands Bank of England (National Economy and the Banking System, Senate Document, Vol. 3, No. 23, 76th Congress)

4/11/07 10:39PM PST ZaRdOz420
FOREIGN BANKERS OWN MAJORITY OF FEDERAL RESERVE
More that half the shareholdings in the Federal Reserve Bank are controlled by large New York City banks, including National City Bank, National Bank of Commerce, First National Bank, Chase National Bank, and Marine National Bank. When Rockefeller's National City Bank merged with J.P. Morgan's First National Bank in 1955, the Rockefeller group owned 22 percent of the shares of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which in turn holds the majority of shares in the Federal Reserve System - 53 percent. But who really owns what? Here arc the top controllers of the Federal Rwerve Bank
1. Rothchild banks of London and Berlin.
2. Lazard Brothers Banks of Paris.
3. Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy.
4. Warburg Bank of Hamburg and Amsterdam.
5. Lehman Brothers Bank of New York.
6. Kuhn, Loeb bank of New York.
7. Chase Manhattan Bank of New York, which controls all of the other 11 Federal Reserve Banks.
8. Goldman, Sachs Bank of New York.
This ownership combination has been challenged by the Federal Reserve Bank, but a study of Standards and Poors will verify the ownerships. This means that the controlling interest of our national monetary system is foreign. In 1797, John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson, "All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects of the Constitution or Confederation; not from any want of honor or virtue, as much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation." In simple terms, the United States Government borrows money from the Federal Reserve Bank with interest. Here is how it works: The Government wants $1 billion. The Federal Reserve prints $1 billion - based upon no hard asset - and lends it to the Government at a high interest rate. The bank did not have the original money, it created it and made a bookkeeping entry - like you writing yourself a check without funds and cashing it. The Federal Reserve controls the flow of money, making it tight and creating unemployment or printing more than actually exists and creates inflation. It is, in wessence, a paper corporation, which controls the entire economic well-being of the nation.

4/11/07 10:08PM PST ZaRdOz420
Who actually owns the Federal Reserve Central Banks? The ownership of the 12 Central banks, a very well kept secret, has been revealed: 1. Rothschild Bank of London 2. Warburg Bank of Hamburg 3. Rothschild Bank of Berlin 4. Lehman Brothers of New York 5. Lazard Brothers of Paris 6. Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York 7. Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy 8. Goldman, Sachs of New York 9. Warburg Bank of Amsterdam 10. Chase Manhattan Bank of New York.
These bankers are connected to London Banking Houses which ultimately control the FED. When England lost the Revolutionary War with America, the monster Rothchild promised the Queen he would regain control over the United States by controlling our banking system, the printing of our money, and our debt. The individuals listed below owned banks which in turn owned shares in the FED. The banks listed below have significant control over the New York FED District, which controls the other 11 FED Districts. These banks also are partly foreign owned and control the New York FED District Bank: First National Bank of New York, James Stillman National City Bank, New York, Mary W. Harnman, National Bank of Commerce, New York, A.D. Jiullard Hanover, National Bank, New York, Jacob Schiff, Chase National Bank, New York, Thomas F. Ryan, Paul Warburg, William Rockefeller, Levi P. Morton, M.T. Pyne, George F. Baker, Percy Pyne, Mrs. G.F. St. George, J.W. Sterling, Katherine St. George, H.P. Davidson, J.P. Morgan (Equitable Life/Mutual Life), Edith Brevour, T. Baker.

3/09/07 8:19PM PST DodgyGeezer
question: If the Federal Goverment doesn't own the federal reserve, who does?

10/02/07 4:37PM PST    Iconoclaste
    Info or Intox? The current generations have difficulty to discern. The more so as their members - this observer not excluded - have difficulty grasping and dealing with the information tsunamis hitting them essentially unprepared. Helplessness, saturation and other IT age effects increasingly take their toll also on the classes now dominating the decision-making strata. It would thus be even surprising if memories of Lousiana, Pearl Harbor and even the "non-conspirative" Kennedy assasination were to effectively help us understand what's really going on. We seem to be loosing the faculty to overcome a growing sceptisism, muteness and generalized sheep-behavior.
    Fritz Stern's "carefully" drawn parallels - made in an interview with the Swiss Television SF1 on September 30 - between what happened in Germany in the Thirties and what, "since six years" most strikingly, can be observed in the United States, are one thing. Another is how most of us register, digest and react to such still evolving events as 9/11, Iraq and Iran. The critical mass for indicated fundamental changes in the citizen-state relationship has not been brought about by the fall of the Berlin Wall - you remember in which direction it fell? And if history is any guide, even the further rise of the IV Reich is not going to change that, as the US Government has successfully devised a scheme to suck the world's riches by way of the IRS's some 2600 QIs (banks abroad who, on behalf of the IRS, collect 31% protection money for investors who wish to anonimously invest in the US economy: www.solami.com/QI.htm). Not unlike the criminalization of the US citizen's possession of gold in 1933 (.../goldies.htm#Criminals), it appears that the events of 1913 surrounding the creation of the US Federal Reserve as a non-governmental entity has since also escaped the attention of most visitors of the amusement park. So it may be that we have to wait for a foreign sovereign holder of significant amounts of US dollars to find it in its interests to test the terrain. And if the current flat earth fellows retain their power foothold much longer, we may find those on the command bridge to confirm to an all-too-long complacent world that the Federal Reserve is indeed not part of the US Government - and therefore isn't really concerned if somebody shows up on the gold window.

Paul Craig Roberts wrote the Kemp-Roth bill and was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is author or coauthor of eight books, including The Supply-Side Revolution (Harvard University Press). He has held numerous academic appointments, including the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has contributed to numerous scholarly journals and testified before Congress on 30 occasions. He has been awarded the U.S. Treasury's Meritorious Service Award and the French Legion of Honor. He was a reviewer for the Journal of Political Economy under editor Robert Mundell. He is the co-author of The Tyranny of Good Intentions. He is also coauthor with Karen Araujo of Chile: Dos Visiones – La Era Allende-Pinochet (Santiago: Universidad Andres Bello, 2000).

Ekopolitik (Altay Ünaltay): We have been aware of organizations like SANE who openly calls all Muslims believe an evil religion and they should be wiped out on the face of the Earth. SANE (http://www.saneworks.us) advertises itself on websites like Weekly Standard, a neocon publishing house. As you write down neocons not openly but implicitly more or less say the same thing by Islamophobe as SANE says, whose founder sponsor is a Newt Gingrich acquaintance. Gingrich already talked about III. World War and you are talking about III. Reich. How do you reflect on all these?

Paul Craig Roberts: Norman Podhoretz, a leader of the US Jewish community and godfather of the neoconservatives wrote in Commentary magazine that Islam must be deracinated, deprived of any religious power and made into a mere formality. He has also advocated US invasion, occupation, and social reconstruction of all Muslim countries, a reconstruction that amounts to stamping out Muslim culture. Podhoretz has been pushing hard, as has Vice President Cheney, for a US attack on Iran. I do not know what can prevent a US attack on Iran.

In the US today, Jewish neoconservative organizations and organizations funded with Jewish money are fostering Islamophobia. There is an organized effort to make the American people loath, fear, and hate Muslims. Think Tanks turn out books claiming that Islam is an evil religion that intends to destroy the West and which treats women worse than slaves. This emotional propaganda serves several purposes and interest groups:

(1) Neoconservatives who believe in hegemonic American empire and US protection of Israeli expansionism

(2) The military-security complex which is earning billions of dollars in profits from President Bush's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

(3) US and UK oil interests which hope to be given control over Iraqi oil and the locations of oil pipelines

(4) Ideological US interest groups such as the Federalist Society which hope to elevate the US presidency above the constitutionally co-equal branches of government--Congress and the Judiciary--and to install a moderate dictatorship that is not hampered by US civil liberties and the Bill of Rights

(5) Christian Zionists and Rapture Evangelicals who believe war in the Middle East is bringing "end times" in which they will be "wafted up to heaven." Propaganda against Muslims creates a climate of fear and anger that benefits the agendas of these five groups and permits abusive treatment and prosecutions of Muslims in the US.

It's a widespread claim, that the Bush regime wants to bomb and eventually nuke Iran. Is this only, because neocons want to show a muscle against the so called "Islamic terrorism", or do you think, there are other reasons? What we mean is, that by bombing and back channel communicating, the US wants to tell Iran, that Iran cannot have atomic energy, or be a regional power by being against the US. America wants Iran back to the line of US allies. If Iran comes back, it is claimed, that a “second Islamic atomic bomb” (after the Pakistani one) is no problem for Mr. Bush.

Neoconservatives formerly spoke in terms of decades of warfare in the Middle East. Now, in light of the failure of conventional US arms to defeat Iraqi and Afghan resistance, neoconservatives now speak of using nuclear weapons in order to make it clear to Muslims that their resistance to US domination is hopeless. US war doctrine was changed by Pentagon Secretary Don Rumsfeld to permit US first strike with nuclear weapons on non-nuclear countries. Various neoconservatives have written that there is no point having nuclear weapons if you can't use them.

What role, do you think, will Turkey play in an attack against Iran? And, if we heed the Iranian Foreign Minister “any neighboring country, which allows its air bases and facilities to be used by enemy aircrafts to attack Iran, will be considered an enemy of Iran”, what will Turkey get in return?
I do not know what role Turkey might play in any US attack on Iran. Neoconservatives consider Turkey to be a US ally. Richard Perle, a notorious Jewish neoconservative, represented the Turkish government for years and, perhaps, still does. Neoconservatives are fairly confident that the secular, non-Islamist Turkish military reports to the US government and serves as a means for the US to control Turkey's government. In other words, many neoconservatives do not consider Turkey to have an independent military, but one that is America's agent.

Turkey is planning to launch an attack against the PKK militia in Northern Iraq. Turkish author¬ities always complained of US indifference for terrorist activities against Turkey, coming from Northern Iraqi territory. Do you think, America wants the Turkish army, if unwillingly, to get involved in Iraqi internal security matters instead of the retreating American army? Turkish soldier has been always believed to be brave and ready to die in combat, whereas Turkey is believed to be a staunch ally of the US.

The hegemonic US government does not want Turkey or any other power to exercise any influence in the Middle East. Turkish troops would be welcomed in Iraq only if they were part of the US coalition. They would not be welcomed as an independent force.

Before the visit of Mr. Putin to U.S, a post-modern Cold War wind blows. Putin’s speech in Munich calls out Cold War era. Do you foresee a new-style of Cold-War? And, related to that, Mr. Putin once said, that Russia will not allow Iran to be attacked by some other country. Are we, then, heading to the next world war that way?

The cold war has been restarted by the Bush regime, not by Putin. All the agreements reached by President Reagan and Gorbachev have been violated by subsequent US administrations. The US has needlessly provoked Russia by taking NATO to Russia's borders and by placing anti-ballistic missiles in Poland and Czech Republic. The Bush regime keeps a constant drum of propaganda against Russia. The purpose of relaunching the cold war is to enrich the otherwise redundant US strategic weapons industry, including nuclear warheads, and, also, to intimidate Russia from helping Iran resist US plans to bring about "regime change" by installing an American puppet government in Iran like the puppet governments that exist in Egypt, Pakistan, Iraq, and Jordan. The US controls the Saudis and oil emirates with its umbrella of protection.

I fear that the Middle East will suffer more US bombings and invasions for the simple reason that the Middle East is disunited. The Shi'ites and Sunnis are more involved with killing one another than with resisting the US occupation. Turkey's military is secular and prevents the rise of an Islamist government in Turkey. Iraq is essentially destroyed. Pakistan, currently ruled by a US puppet, is in turmoil and has nuclear weapons. Egypt is bought with American money. A people so divided and denied governments that represent them are not well positioned to resist the neoconservatives' drive for hegemonic American empire. As long as Muslims remain disunited, they will remain very weak and subject to outside interference in their affairs.

If America is heading to new wars against other big powers, do you think a new 9/11 is needed and “prepared” to break the pacifist mood of the American public?

A large percentage, perhaps a majority, of the American people have no real idea of the neoconservatives' agenda. Most Americans simply believe that Muslims attacked them on September 11, 2001, and intend to attack them again, and that "we must fight them over there before they come over here." The American population is fairly well propagandized and brainwashed. Most of the opposition to the war in Iraq is because we are perceived to be losing the war. If Bush were winning the war, he would probably still have majority support. Americans simply do not seem to care how many hundreds of thousands of Muslims are killed by US bombs and military actions, or how many Palestinians and Lebanese are killed by Israel.

Global financial stance is hotter than ever. Regarding to your prevision what are the possible financial irregularities and risks especially by considering hedge funds?

I think that the US and European central banks can contain the subprime derivative problems by simply purchasing the distressed instruments from the banking system. Central banks can create all the money necessary simply by making book entries and adding reserves to the banks' accounts.If the financial problems are mishandled, it could possibly lead to other developments, such as China and Japan ceasing from financing US wars in the Middle East. The US government's budget is in deficit, and the Bush regime borrows most of the money it needs from China and Japan. Should financing be cut off, the war-making power of the US would end, or else the Bush regime would have to raise taxes substantially or cut social spending programs on which a large percentage of the US population is dependent.

What will be the likely effects of 2008 U.S elections to the global policy environment?

I see no reason for hope in the US 2008 election. The November 2006 election gave the Democratic Party control over both houses of Congress, but the Democrats have done nothing to stop the wars or to protect US civil liberties. The reason is that the Democratic Party is owned by the same groups that own the Republican Party: (1) AIPAC, (2) the military-security complex, (3) the oil industry, (4) the transnational corporations that offhsore their production, and (5) the pharmaceutical industry. To run for President takes about $100 million at a minimum, and even a seat in Congress costs $20 million. The donors of these campaign funds are who control the government, not the votes of the people. The American people are essentially as powerless as the Muslim people.

The US no longer has an independent media. During the 1990s the Clinton Administration went against two centuries of American tradition and permitted 5 mega-conglomerates to concentrate the once independent US media into few hands that are easily controlled by government and advertising interests. It is very difficult for the average American to even get correct information.

The neoconservative Bush regime is self-righteous and filled with hubris, like much of the US population. America, like Israel, believes itself to be the salt of the earth. When leaders become so hubris-filled, they generally over-reach, like Napoleon and Hitler, both of whom brought about their downfall by marching off into Russia. I fear that the American Empire will over-reach and cause the world great destruction as it brings about its own fall.

At the present time the only possibility of stopping further US aggression in the Middle East is for the rest of the world to unite, stand firm, and say NO. That includes Turkey.